Facebook to ban white nationalist content

Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by untog on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:18PM (#19503219)

I'd encourage people to please read the post before they comment. It seems that this isn't actually Facebook targeting a specific ideology, it is removing a previous rule that excluded that ideology:

> We didn’t originally apply the same rationale to expressions of white nationalism and separatism because we were thinking about broader concepts of nationalism and separatism – things like American pride and Basque separatism, which are an important part of people’s identity.

I've been plenty critical of Facebook in the past, but this post is refreshingly honest. I hope it's followed up by some discernible results.

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by identity-haver on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:34PM (#19503461)

I don't think this is correct. They seem to be saying that they allow posting about nationalism and separatism, and white nationalism content was allowed under this umbrella, but now they specifically disallow white nationalism and separatism.

Honestly though, posting about any serious separatist movement has a good chance of violating their "terrorism" community standard: "Any non-governmental organization that engages in premeditated acts of violence against persons or property ... in order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim"

You can't tell me with a straight face that if Facebook existed 50 years ago, Sinn Fein would be allowed to post on Facebook, because they were not the IRA.

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